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Application of Multi-Agent Technology to Fault Diagnosis of Power Distribution Systems (2005)
Journal Article

When a fault occurs in a power system, the protective relays detect the fault and trip appropriate circuit breakers, which isolate the affected equipment from the rest of the power system. Fault diagnosis of power systems is the process of identifyin... Read More about Application of Multi-Agent Technology to Fault Diagnosis of Power Distribution Systems.

Rolling horizon heuristics for production planning and set-up scheduling with backlogs and error-prone demand forecasts (2005)
Journal Article

Three families of models and fast heuristic methods are developed for identifying a production plan and immediate set-up schedule for a manufacturing line with changeover times. The initial model is exact, but is optimally solvable only for very shor... Read More about Rolling horizon heuristics for production planning and set-up scheduling with backlogs and error-prone demand forecasts.

Convergence synthesis of dynamic frequency modulation tones using an evolution strategy (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper reports on steps that have been taken to enhance previously presented evolutionary sound matching work. In doing so, the convergence characteristics are shown to provide a synthesis method that produces interesting sounds. The method imple... Read More about Convergence synthesis of dynamic frequency modulation tones using an evolution strategy.

One point quadrature shell elements for sheet metal forming analysis (2005)
Journal Article

Numerical simulation of sheet metal forming processes is overviewed in this work. Accurate and efficient elements, material modelling and contact procedures are three major considerations for a reliable numerical analysis of plastic forming processes... Read More about One point quadrature shell elements for sheet metal forming analysis.

EcoBot-II: An artificial agent with a natural metabolism (2005)
Journal Article

In this paper we report the development of the robot EcoBot-II, which exhibits a primitive form of artificial symbiosis. Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) were used as the onboard energy supply, which consisted of bacterial cultures from sewage sludge and... Read More about EcoBot-II: An artificial agent with a natural metabolism.

Altered body image: Appearance-related concerns of people with visible disfigurement (2004)
Journal Article

Aim. The aim of this paper is to report a study to establish the extent and type of psychosocial needs of outpatients attending for treatment of a wide range of disfiguring conditions. Background. Visible disfigurements can be associated with extensi... Read More about Altered body image: Appearance-related concerns of people with visible disfigurement.

Improvement in collective performance with experience in ants (2004)
Journal Article

We show that entire ant colonies can improve their collective performance progressively when they repeat the same process. Colonies of Leptothorax albipennis can reduce their total emigration times over successive emigrations. We show that this impro... Read More about Improvement in collective performance with experience in ants.

Design and control concepts of a hyper redundant haptic interface for interaction with virtual environments (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper discusses the design concept of a hyper-redundant haptic interface with 10 actuated degreesof- freedom (DOF). The kinematical redundancies allow a significantly larger workspace, while reducing the overall device size. Moreover, an increas... Read More about Design and control concepts of a hyper redundant haptic interface for interaction with virtual environments.

Algorithms for building annular structures with minimalist robots inspired by brood sorting in ant colonies (2004)
Journal Article

This study shows that a task as complicated as multi-object 'ant-like annular sorting' can be accomplished with 'minimalist' solutions employing simple mechanisms and minimal hardware. It provides an alternative to 'patch sorting' for multi-object so... Read More about Algorithms for building annular structures with minimalist robots inspired by brood sorting in ant colonies.

Towards dependable swarms and new discipline of swarm engineering (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The original shorter paper was given as an invited talk at the SAB '04 workshop on Swarm Robotics. Selected papers were invited to be extended and following further full review were published in this volume in the highly-regarded 'state of the art re... Read More about Towards dependable swarms and new discipline of swarm engineering.